Classic Dirt Bike

Back to the future

JOHN DICKINSON

This issue's offering is being banged out – I mean silently tapped out on a laptop, not thrashed noisily on a mechanical typewriter which was so much more satisfying – literally as I return home from the Westmorland club's Classic Scramble, an event which made a triumphant return to the Helsington venue, near Kendal, Cumbria, following a 50-year absence.

As the venue is all of half a mile from my front door I took the opportunity to WALK up the A6 to the track, just as folk used to do back in the

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